Politics & Government News

2:32 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Protesters in Slovakia's capital and elsewhere in the country have denounced a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to scrap mail voting for Slovaks living abroad

2:29 PM on Tuesday, April 14

A judge in Austin has ordered the temporary reinstatement of Texas's Historically Underutilized Business Program rules

1:03 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Virginia voters are set to decide next week on a Democratic-drawn redistricting plan that could boost the party's chances in the U.S. House

12:24 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Young Hungarians have played a crucial role in ending Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule

12:06 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Visitors to the Vatican have criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for his harsh remarks about Pope Leo XIV

12:03 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Carla Crowder's unexpected courtroom experience in 2019 — representing Alvin Kennard, who spent 36 years in prison for a minor theft due to Alabama’s “three strikes” law — reshaped the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice

11:59 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The timeline is tightening as some states attempt to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of the November midterm elections

11:53 AM on Tuesday, April 14

At least seven people have died in a gang attack on a peaceful town in southern Haiti

11:45 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has recently been taking a firmer stance with the U.S., defying pressures where other countries have caved

11:21 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Committee to Protect Journalists and five other international press freedom and human rights groups have urged Kazakhstan’s president to drop charges against several journalists placed under house arrest and change the country’s legislation to ensure press freedom

11:21 AM on Tuesday, April 14

An appeals court panel has ruled that a federal judge must end his contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year

11:13 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Haiti’s government says it has dismissed two state officials following a stampede at a mountaintop fortress that killed 25 people over the weekend

10:46 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic says the Balkan country will jointly produce combat drones with Israel

8:50 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Irish government has survived a confidence vote over how it handled a week of disruptive fuel protests that cut off oil supplies and caused massive traffic jams

8:35 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Two U.S. families have gone to Italy's highest court to challenge a law limiting citizenship claims to Italian descendants removed by more than two generations

7:49 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has suspended the fuel tax in response to the Iran war

7:28 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Spain's government has finalized a migrant amnesty measure that paves the way for potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status in the country

7:02 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Tax refunds are up this season, but polling shows that most Americans still think their taxes are too high, according to recent polls

1:09 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have pledged to safeguard multilateralism amid global conflicts

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Pope Leo XIV, a studious and soft-spoken cleric, and Donald Trump, an unapologetically bellicose politician, have long been on a rhetorical collision course